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Its one thing to state that the current version of the iOS is 'more resilient to intrusion/usurpation than an other version', and its another thing entirely to
by mmjaa 10y ago
Its one thing to state that the current version of the iOS is 'more resilient to intrusion/usurpation than an other version', and its another thing entirely to understand that Apple, Inc., itself .. may not be as resilient as required in order to validate the position that 'we can stop worrying about the CIA'.
We should not 'stop worrying about the CIA' just because Apple came to the rescue and already fixed the bugs.
We should, in fact, continue to apply pressure to such vendors of digital enslavement as Apple, and the rest of the sordid gang, to provide real evidence that "Things are Okay™", when asked.
- geofft 10y agoWhat would you interpret as "real evidence"? I have no idea how you would begin to demonstrate that a body of source code as big (in both lines of code and length / size of the development project) as iOS, Android/Replicant/Lineage, or any other modern operating system contains zero backdoors, especially when your threat model involves the software authors helping you over a period of many years to weave those backdoors into the OS and obfuscate them as much as necessary. I also have no idea how to audit a physical phone I have received from an Apple Store to make sure that the hardware and firmware faithfully implement what they are supposed to be implementing.